Biography
Wallace Rice was born 10 Nov 1859, to John Asaph Rice (1829 – 1888) and Margaret Van Slyke (Culver) Rice (ca1829-1891) in Hamilton, Ontario, while his parents were temporarily residing in Canada. His father John Asaph Rice was a hotelier in Chicago, co-owner of the Sherman House Hotel, and noted collector of rare books, manuscripts, and Americana. As a boy, Rice attended grammar school of Racine College. After graduating from Harvard University in 1883, Rice was admitted to the bar in in Chicago in November 1884. He married Minnie (Hale) Angier on 8 August 1889 in Chicago, Illinois and they had two sons John and Benjamin. Rice was divorced from his wife Minnie prior to 1920 and he never remarried.
Rice was a newspaperman in Chicago writing for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Herald American and was a literary adviser and editor for several Chicago-based publishing houses. In 1917, he designed the Municipal Flag of Chicago. He compiled a number of stories and anecdotes from newspapers around the country. One of his major anthology works was in collaboration with Clarence Darrow in the editing of Infidels and Heretics published in 1929. He was also an accomplished author in his own right, writing historical pageants, including one celebrating Illinois' centennial and another for the semi-centennial of Birmingham, Alabama He was also a poet and essayist. Rice died on 15 December 1939 in Chicago.
Read more about this topic: Wallace Rice
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)
“There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people, if he’s any good.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“As we approached the log house,... the projecting ends of the logs lapping over each other irregularly several feet at the corners gave it a very rich and picturesque look, far removed from the meanness of weather-boards. It was a very spacious, low building, about eighty feet long, with many large apartments ... a style of architecture not described by Vitruvius, I suspect, though possibly hinted at in the biography of Orpheus.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)